In the March number of the Monthly " Chip" has a pleasant note containing very good advice to young gardeners. The hints he throws out are well-timed and very appropriate. Many young gardeners believe themselves proficient in a few years, settling down contented with a knowledge of old familiar plants and practices, and never aiming at further advancement. If they want to be successful in their calling, they must bring their minds to their work in thorough earnestness, devoting every moment of their time to careful study, determined to overcome any difficulty that may arise. A young man to be successful must give close attention to the work entrusted to him, for if done without intelligent consideration of its effects it will not be of much benefit to him. As "Chip" remarks, a close observance of nature is your surest guide, which the health of your plant will soon indicate. If plants do not thrive, try some other plan of growing them, or some other position for them. This will create a desire for further researches, which will draw you onward, interested, till you attain success.

Never allow yourself to get above learning. A plea of ignorance is often a very good thing, and produces good results. I say listen to your lady employer when she tells about the treatment she gives to her house plants, as from such sources | one will derive information, if he only looks for it, or will hear it. Before the young gardener lies a vast field of most important information, opening wider and wider at every turn as he advances, teeming with matter of the most interesting nature, leading him onward from one thing to another until he is almost lost in amazement at the grandeur of nature. Be always courteous and pleasant in your manner, especially to employers. Never refuse to do anything you are asked, although it may differ from your ideas. Mention them to him in the most reasonable manner. If he allows you to try your own way, and you are successful, then you will gain his confidence, and perhaps interest him in helping you forward.

Read you must, or you will soon fall behind the times, as so many new plants are being introduced every year, and new methods of treatment. Write to the papers for information, as you may not only benefit yourself but many others. When you do write, condense it into as few words as you can, to be understood, for editors have no time to go over lengthy roundabout articles. Write plainly and only on one side of your sheet.

I would especially recommend the Gardeners' Monthly to all. The cost is trifling, and it is always full of fresh, well-chosen articles. Also P. Henderson's last work, containing as it does historical accounts, a glossary of botanical and general horticultural terms and practices with the natural order of plants; all of which are very necessary as a help to the successful cultivation of plants. As a book of reference no one should be without it. Gardeners are much indebted to him for it. Works written on this continent are more useful here than the English, because of the great difference in climate, affecting inside as well as out-door gardening.